Tag: poetry
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#senryu Saturday 1/27/18… #haiku #poetry
bronchial coughing a pile of soiled tissues and cough drop wrappings
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#Publication Alert (1/27/18)…”Fresh snow…” #haiku #poetry
Happy to be featured today at My Haiku Pond! fresh snow a young hunter lowers his rifile for Johnny Baranski https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMyHaikuPond%2Fposts%2F1610427742377075&width=500
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#Throwdown Thursday (1/25/18): my lastest #haibun on .@ImageCurve… #haiku #poetry
Such Monotony Another day. Students to nudge to work or be silent, while others teach. While I remain voiceless… Another day. IEPs to write. The implications of the difference to face. Between where I am, and where the report indicates I ought to be… Another day. Already a…
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A Katana’s Lament: a #Tankaprose…#tanka #haibun #poetry
What? You expected gratitude? That you forged me of steel in the hottest flames? More than two-hundred folds to ensure my density? Sharpened my edge so that, in a master’s hand, I could slice through bamboo in a single stroke? Then you ignored the wisdom of the old master: “Weapons are unhappy tools…” barren…
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A History (and Legacy) of Handwriting: a #haibun about script…#haiku #poetry
Second grade. I follow the exercises in the book. Up and down, up and down, up and down. Then the next set: round and round and round again, left to right on the lines across the page. All to accomplish handwriting the alphabet in script. first penmanship … watching outside our window a…
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#Tanka Tuesday (1/23/18): The joys of bronchitis…#feature #haibun
Wondering why I haven’t posted anything of my own since Saturday? Well, it began as a cough. It expanded to chronic, and by Saturday I needed to cancel my performance at Rockland Poet’s January Open Mic (at least I wasn’t the feature!). Chronic became incessant by Sunday. I took off yesterday and today before…
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Life of a Poet — Frank J. Tassone
Check out my interview in Poets United! #haiku #haibun #tanka #senryu
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#Senryu Saturday (1/20/18): Her Long Suffering …#haibun #poetry #haiku
Photo by Alex Loup on Unsplash Overhead from the kitchen as I changed in my bedroom: “Frankie, throw that out. I’ve suffered you father not throwing things out for seventeen years…” more marital bliss laughing so hard until the coughing starts
Frank J. Tassone 